A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Thirty-five years ago, a badly crushed skull was unearthed from a riverbank in central China. At the time, scientists could not accurately classify the fossil because of how damaged it was. But now, a ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

OROZMANI, Georgia — Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric ...

A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in ...

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